Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-03-25
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A report from Livona pictures a most
thrilling experience o. twelve families
near there who we're caught in the flood
Saturday night and shut eff from all
communication with the world. Their
homes were surrounded and they were
driven to the roofs where they remained
until 10 O'Clock the next day. Fortu-
nately the frost of the night froze q crust
of ice, and the people walked. on this
thin support for over two miles before
they reached the shore. The children
were carried the entire distance, and
several times during the trip members
OF the party broke through the ice and
were saved by their companions. The
water over which they walked was from
eight to twenty-feet deep.
Bowdle, Oak. March GA man in
from LeBeau this morning confirms the
report received here OF high water in the
river 10 bank full. The heavy ice run
ming is doing great damage to timber
along the Moreau river. The Indians
in the MORGAN valley were driven to the
hills and it is reported that several were
drowned. Garret Barry's family living
on the Rush bottom narrowly escaped
and lost several head of stock. 1t is
feared the river will make q new channel
through the bottom. LeBeau is partly
under water. No definite information
concerning the steamer Tompkins can
be obtained.
INCIDENTS OF TIE FLOOD.
Bismarck special, 23rd. The flood is
almost phenomenal, lnasmuch as it has
been held for Blk days by the Sibley is
land gorge, wbicb is as firm. now as
when it was formed. During all of yes.
terday and last nignt dynamite explo.
sions Ia rapid succession were heard, and
it was expected that by thus morning,
the gorge would be broken; but the
dynamite had no effect, and the gorge is
the wonder OF citizens and strangers.
Numerous artists have photographed
the scene for the illustrated papers OF
the country, but no mechanical process
can catch it in its terrible grandeur. A
report has just been received here that a
man was seen floating on a block of ice
yesterday morning as he passed Llvons,
thirty miles south. He was wav-
ing his hands frantioally. and cried
for help most p%itifully. The river
was raie,ng rapidly at the time, and
the naf.yy floating ice made it utterly
impossible for the settlers to send relief
to the death-confronted man. He was
watched for over four miles, but finally
passed out Of sight in o bend OF the riv-
or, still waving his hands and struggling
with desperation to call assistance. The
last words heard from his lips were.
My God some one come out and help
me-. / have been On the ice all night
and am almost dead" But no boat was
to be fonnd in the Vicinity, and if There
had been q hundred boats on the shore
it would have been impossible to save
the unfortunate man. An attempt to
reach him would have been sure death,
and the settlers we're compelled to see
him carried away on the tide. Inquiries
have been made at points below Liyonia
but no trace OF the man can be found
1t is believed that shortly after
he was seen he was drowned by being
thrown from his foothoid or crushed in
the ice, which with the pressure of the
current and the miles of solid floating
cakes behind it ground everything that
came within it's reach. Another report
IRON Livona pictures q most thrilling
e1perience OF twelve families near there
who we're caught in the flood Saturday
night and shut off from all communica
tion with the world.
Mails for the Pacific coast and wes'
Missouri points will be taken again cvel
the Northern Pacific and transferred BY
boats at this point. The steamboats,
have escaped injury thus far, buI
it is still impossible to heal
from the steamer Tompkins in the
river below. A system OF signals has
been adopted for communication be-
tween this city and Ft. LINCOLN and
Mandan. The Lincoln officers are still
of the opinion that the people opposite
the post on the lowlands south Of tht
city persisted in the food. The settler
whom they reported as having seer
through field glasses we're OF haystack'
and in trees, while the people saved by
the TesouinR party were farther nortt
and were net on haystacks or trees
The belief OF the officers is becoming
prevalent and as the reports como il
from remote river districts the story o
suffering and loss Of life in intensified.